One thing we really noticed on this trip is just how many kinds of beautiful there are. The mountains and lakes are beautiful.
The hot springs are beautiful...
Even though they don't smell beautiful.
Old Faithful is beautiful.
Even the bison who strolled right past us was beautiful in his own way.
The river and canyon are beautiful.
It's just beautiful there...no matter what you happen to be looking at.
On our last day together, we headed to town for a swim in the city pool, and then went back to do some more shooting. Each of the kids was given a chance to shoot the gun, and they are all still talking about that today! Just look at the concentration in their faces!
Okay, maybe Mango wasn't concentrating to much...it's just so hard for her to stop SMILING!
And then there were the last pictures with a favorite second cousin. Everyone took their turn sitting on her lap to pose for a photo...I'm sure this is not exactly what she had in mind.
Boy, do I miss waking up to this view!
On our way back down from the mountain, we stopped at Shell Falls. The picture can in no way show the tremendous amount of water that was falling. My brother-in-law said he'd never seen the water level that high.
And Aunt C? This pic is for you! :-)
Monday afternoon, we headed up onto the mountain. Below is a fossilized dinosaur track! There were enough of the tracks that we could follow where they walked!
We also did some actual fossil hunting (on land where it was legal to take the fossils!). The kids found some "devil's toe nails" (sea-shells) and some teeny-tiny fossils called cloynoids (sp?) which are actually tiny coral. 
I wish you could've been there to watch Mango's eyes get big when she realized exactly where and when those fossils came from. I asked her how she thought sea-shell and coral fossils might end up on top of a mountain. She answered "water", and I asked her to imagine just how much water it would take to cover this big old mountain we were on, and asked her if she knew when that happened. Random helped her out by answering Noah's flood, and I told her that was right - that what she was holding in her hands were most-likely fossils made during the time of Noah's flood. It was a pretty amazing idea to me too!
Because he's an avid hunter, he owns a wide variety of guns from small to big, and they get to try pretty much all of them!
And I am sure that Random would like you to know that he won some sort of shooting contest that they held - beating out both his big brother and his uncle (though I am quite sure the details on that are a bit fuzzy!).
